The Flavian Amphitheatre (The Colosseum)

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A journey through the history of Christianity in Rome: part of a larger complex that includes the basi
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A sober, typically late Mannerist style characterizes the imposing and severe palace in the center of the Ri
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The palace dates back to the early seventeenth century and belonged to the Maccarani family; in the second half of the 17th century it was purchased by the Odescalchi Princes, who still own it, and
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The land on which Palazzo Madama was built was ceded in 1478 by the monks of the Imperial Abbey of Farfa to France, looking for a place to host French pilgrims in Rome.

The Palace, now the headquarters of the Banco di Sicilia, was built in 1662 to a design by Carlo Rainaldi for the Duke of Nevers, Filippo Giuliano Mazzarino Mancini.


The Palace, designed by architect Giulio Magni, Valadier's nephew, was started in 1912, and was inaugurated on 28 October 1928.

The Palace is located along Corso Vittorio Emanuele II in the city centre, and is the masterpiece of the architect Baldassarre Peruzzi who built it where the fifte
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Its name was taken from a statue of the god Mars found in the foundation excavations and mistakenly believed to be a representation of the leader Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, defeated by the Romans in
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In 1508 Luigi De Torres had the palace built by the Neapolitan architect Pirro Ligorio to make it the family palace.


The building, located in Piazza Paganica, was erected in 1541 at the behest of Ludovico Mattei, Duke of Paganica, to a design attributed to Nanni di Baccio Bigio.

The Sangallo Medici Clarelli Palace was built by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger (1483-1546) together with his co-worker Dosio around 1535 as his private residence.


The palace was built in 1660 by De Rossi, a pupil of Bernini, probably on the occasion of the marriage of Pompeo Muti Papazzurri to Maria Isabella Massimo.

The 17-century Palazzo Nuovo stands opposite the identical Palazzo dei Conservatori, on the splendid Piazza del Campidoglio, designed around the mid-16th century b
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The original core of the palace dates back to the 15th century, when it was the residence of the Benzoni family.

The palace is composed of different buildings taking up an entire artificial hill, which was perhaps formed on the stone materials coming from a nearby Tiber river port and which w
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Built in 1605 on the ruins of the baths of Constantine by Flaminio Ponzio for cardinal Scipio Borghese, it was embellished by Giovanni Vasanzio with a sloping terraced garden.

To unify the different pre-existing properties on Piazza Pasquino in a single building, Girolamo Rinaldi (1570- 1655), built a palace on the orders of Giovanni Battista Pamphilj, w
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The palace was built at the end of the 16th century by an unknown family, whose abraded coat of arms can be seen on the cornice and in the courtyard, on the site of the Melangolo Tower, shown on Bu
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Il Ministero delle Imprese e del Made in Italy ha sede nello storico Palazzo Piacentini, realizzato da due figure di spicco del panorama architettonico italiano: M
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The present Palazzo Pichi Manfroni Lovatti is a copy of the original building by Gerolamo Pichi demolished in 1881 for the construction of Corso Vittorio Emanuele II.

It was built in 1450 on the ruins of Pompey's Theatre by Cardinal Francesco Condulmer, nephew of Pope Eugene IV Condulmer (1431-47).


Palazzo Maffei Marescotti is a vast palace, born as a noble palace, located in the Pigna district, on the corner between via dei Cestari and via della Pigna, adjacent to the Church of the Santissim
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Built at the beginning of the sixteenth century for the noble Calcagni family, it then passed to the Del Bene family, who were probably responsible for the painted façade on the Piazza Ricci side,
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The palace was built in the mid-sixteenth century by the Jacobilli family who, having exhausted their resources even before having finished it, sold the palace, in 1583, to
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